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diff --git a/35070.txt b/35070.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..01d5632 --- /dev/null +++ b/35070.txt @@ -0,0 +1,882 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of Child's Own Book of Great Musicians: +Schubert, by Thomas Tapper + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Child's Own Book of Great Musicians: Schubert + +Author: Thomas Tapper + +Release Date: January 25, 2011 [EBook #35070] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD'S OWN BOOK: SCHUBERT *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + + CHILD'S OWN BOOK + _of Great Musicians_ + SCHUBERT + + + [Illustration] + + + _By_ + THOMAS TAPPER + + + THEODORE PRESSER CO. + 1712 CHESTNUT STREET + PHILADELPHIA + + + + + HOW TO USE THIS BOOK + + +This book is one of a series known as the CHILD'S OWN BOOK OF GREAT +MUSICIANS, written by Thomas Tapper, author of "Pictures from the Lives +of the Great Composers for Children," "Music Talks with Children," +"First Studies in Music Biography," and others. + +The sheet of illustrations included herewith is to be cut apart by the +child, and each illustration is to be inserted in its proper place +throughout the book, pasted in the space containing the same number as +will be found under each picture on the sheet. It is not necessary to +cover the entire back of a picture with paste. Put it only on the +corners and place neatly within the lines you will find printed around +each space. Use photographic paste, if possible. + +After this play-work is completed there will be found at the back of the +book blank pages upon which the child is to write his own story of the +great musician, based upon the facts and questions found on the previous +pages. + +The book is then to be sewed by the child through the center with the +cord found in the enclosed envelope. The book thus becomes the child's +own book. + +This series will be found not only to furnish a pleasing and interesting +task for the children, but will teach them the main facts with regard to +the life of each of the great musicians--an educational feature worth +while. + + * * * * * + +This series of the Child's Own Book of Great Musicians includes at +present a book on each of the following: + + Bach Grieg Mozart + Beethoven Handel Nevin + Brahms Haydn Schubert + Chopin Liszt Schumann + Dvorak MacDowell Tschaikowsky + Foster Mendelssohn Verdi + Wagner + + Printed in U. S. A. + + + + + [Illustration: No. 1] + + [Illustration: No. 19] + + [Illustration: No. 16] + + [Illustration: No. 14] + + [Illustration: No. 18] + + [Illustration: No. 4] + + [Illustration: No. 20] + + + + + [Illustration: No. 5] + + [Illustration: No. 7] + + [Illustration: No. 6] + + [Illustration: No. 8] + + [Illustration: No. 15] + + [Illustration: No. 21] + + [Illustration: No. 12] + + [Illustration: No. 2] + + [Illustration: No. 3] + + [Illustration: No. 9] + + [Illustration: No. 10] + + [Illustration: No. 13] + + [Illustration: No. 17] + + [Illustration: No. 11] + + + + + Franz Schubert + + The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs + + + This Book was made by + + _____________________ + + + Philadelphia + Theodore Presser Co. + 1712 Chestnut Str. + + + Copyright, 1916, by THEO. PRESSER CO. + Printed in the U.S.A. + + + + + [Illustration: No. 1 + Cut the picture of Schubert + from the sheet of pictures. + Paste in here. + Write the composer's name + below and the dates also.] + + + BORN + + + .................................. + + DIED + + + .................................. + + + + + The Story of the Boy Who Wrote Beautiful Songs. + + +One might say of Schubert that he was born with a spring of melody in +his heart and a song on his lips. + +Can anyone make a melody more lovely than this? + + [Illustration: No. 2 + FROM SCHUBERT'S SONG "TROUT."] + +Play it or have someone play it to you. + +Is it not worth remembering all one's life? + +Schubert composed many kinds of music, but his songs are most loved by +everybody. + +They are sung all over the world. + +And just because he never let a song come from his lips that did not +first come from his heart. + +Is not this a jolly one? + + [Illustration: No. 3 + FROM SCHUBERT'S SONG "WANDERING."] + +Schubert's full name was FRANZ PETER SCHUBERT. + +He was born in Vienna, in a very simple house that looks quite +old-fashioned. + +Over the doorway there is a bust of Schubert, a few inches high. + +And a sign on the house says: Franz Schubert's Birthplace. + + [Illustration: No. 4 + FRANZ SCHUBERT'S BIRTHPLACE.] + +Dates are easy to remember if we write them. So you must ask your +teacher when Schubert was born and put in the date in the next sentence. + +Franz Schubert was born in......... + +At that time the great American authors Washington Irving, James +Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant were all boys. + + [Illustration: No. 5 + IRVING.] + + [Illustration: No. 6 + COOPER.] + + [Illustration: No. 7 + BRYANT.] + +You may not know so much about them now, but some day they will be quite +as good friends as any you will ever make. + +Even though these boys were a little older than Franz Schubert, let us +always think of them together. + +Then, of course, we should think of Schubert together with the composers +who lived when he did. + +Here are some whose names you can remember very easily. + + [Illustration: No. 8 + VON WEBER.] + + [Illustration: No. 9 + ROSSINI.] + + [Illustration: No. 10 + CZERNY.] + + [Illustration: No. 11 + DONIZETTI.] + +Czerny was born in the year 1794, and wrote many studies for the piano. + +How much older was he than Franz Schubert? + +Von Weber wrote operas and conducted them himself. He was born eleven +years before Schubert. + +Rossini was an Italian composer of operas, born in 1792, five years +before Schubert. Schubert's life was so short, however, that Rossini +lived forty years longer than the great song writer. + +Donizetti was an Italian opera composer. One of his well-known operas +was Lucia di Lammermoor. He was born in 1797, just as Schubert was. + +Franz's father was a schoolmaster, and so was Franz himself for three +years. + +He taught the little children of Vienna their A-B-C's, and how to do +sums. Of course, he helped them to learn to read. + +Sometimes we find it quite hard to take one piano lesson or violin +lesson a week. + +But from the time when Franz Schubert was a very little boy he had +lessons every week for violin, voice, and piano. + +A little later he began to study harmony with a very famous man who knew +Mozart. His name was ANTONIO SALIERI. + + [Illustration: No. 12 + ANTONIO SALIERI.] + +With so many lessons and with school work just as we have it, Franz must +have been a very busy boy. + +He was quite poor and often very hungry; but in spite of that he was +always good natured and full of fun. + +At eleven years of age he became a singer in the chapel of the Emperor. +It was here that Salieri was director. + +Franz sang in the choir until he was nearly seventeen. Then he became a +schoolmaster, because, of course, he had to earn his living. + +Wherever he was Franz was thinking music and composing it. Once he wrote +a song called _The Serenade_ at a table outside an inn. + +An artist has made a picture of this. + + [Illustration: No. 13 + SCHUBERT WRITING "THE SERENADE."] + +Once Schubert was seen by his boyhood friends busily writing a new song. +So quick did he write that the ink was hardly dry on one sheet before +the next one was done. He was writing the music to a beautiful fairy +poem by the great German poet Goethe. The poem is called _The Erl-King_, +and tells how the fairy Erl-King chases a father who is rushing on +horseback with his dying child in his arms. Finally, just as the father +reaches his courtyard the child dies. It is a beautiful song sung by the +greatest singers. + +Goethe, the great poet, is not known to have met Schubert. He paid +little attention to his music. + +Here is his picture. + + [Illustration: No. 14 + JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE.] + +Sometime you will learn about Joseph Haydn, who died in Vienna when +little Franz was twelve years old. Papa Haydn, as he was called, was +music master in a famous family called the Esterhazys. + +Let us put a picture of Joseph Haydn here just to remember that he was +an old man of seventy-seven when little Franz was a boy of twelve. + + [Illustration: No. 15 + JOSEPH HAYDN.] + +Well, Franz Schubert also lived for a time with the Esterhazy family. He +was piano teacher to the children of Count Johann. Franz was then +twenty-one years old. + +In what year was he twenty-one? + +A good friend of Schubert's was Michael Vogl. He was a famous singer, +who did all he could to make Schubert's songs known. + +They took little vacation trips together and were good companions. When +you read more about this singer's friendship for Franz Schubert you will +like him for being so kind to one who had very little pleasure in life. + +He looks like a good friend even in a picture--do you not think so? + + [Illustration: No. 16 + SCHUBERT ACCOMPANYING VOGL AS HE SINGS.] + +Once when Schubert and Vogl were enjoying a vacation tour in the +mountains, Franz read Scott's _Lady of the Lake_, which was printed in +the year 1810, when Schubert was thirteen years old. + +Schubert set some of this poem to music. A fact you will remember when +you read it in school. + +Perhaps you could remember at the same time that Scott was a little +older than Schubert and just one year younger than Beethoven. + +Beethoven lived in Vienna at that time and Schubert with two friends +went to see him. Beethoven was very deaf, and those who met him had to +write down what they wanted to say with a large pencil, such as is used +by carpenters. Schubert was so modest and nervous upon meeting the great +master that he could not even write his replies. + +Here is the picture of the way Beethoven looked as he walked down the +street in those days: + + [Illustration: No. 17 + BEETHOVEN IN VIENNA.] + +Once when Schubert was very ill a friend sent him some books to read. +They were _The Last of the Mohicans_, _The Spy_, _The Pilot_, and _The +Pioneer_. + +Now these books were written by the American author, whose name you must +find for yourself. + + [Illustration: No. 18 + SCHUBERT'S WORK ROOM.] + +See what a simple work room Schubert had. Here are his Clavier and chair +and a few books. + +Schubert had music in his mind and soul all the time. It is said that +one of his favorite walks was down by a mill, where he was inspired to +write some beautiful songs. + + [Illustration: No. 19 + SCHUBERT BY THE MILL IN THE WOODS.] + +This is the way that Franz Schubert wrote his name. + + [Illustration: No. 20] + + + * * * * * + + + FACTS ABOUT FRANZ PETER SCHUBERT. + + +When you have read this page and the next make a story about Schubert's +life. Write it in your own words. When you are quite sure you cannot +improve it, copy it on pages 14, 15, and 16. + +1. Schubert was born in Vienna. + +2. His birthday was January 31, 1797. + +3. He died in Vienna in 1828. + +4. When Schubert was born Beethoven was twenty-seven years old. + +5. Schubert was a schoolmaster. + +6. He had his first music lessons from his father, who was also a +schoolmaster and who played the violin. + +7. His brother taught him to play the piano, and he studied singing so +as to join the Emperor's Choir. + +8. Then he studied harmony with a famous man named Salieri. + +9. When Franz was thirteen he composed two piano pieces, at fourteen he +wrote two songs, and when he was sixteen he wrote a symphony. + +10. When he was eighteen Franz wrote more than a hundred songs. + +11. He composed _The Erl-King_ when he was nineteen. + +12. In all, Schubert wrote over six hundred songs, lots of piano pieces, +nine symphonies, and many other compositions. + +13. What other composer also wrote nine symphonies? Perhaps you may not +know this; if not, ask your teacher. + +14. Schubert made many good friends. + +15. With them and his music he found all his happiness. + +16. Once when he was very ill he read some books by an American author. +Do you remember the author's name? + +17. Do you remember the name of any one of the books? + +18. One of Schubert's most beautiful symphonies was called _The +Unfinished_, because he did not live to complete it. + + + TEN QUESTIONS ABOUT SCHUBERT. + +1. Where was Schubert born? + +2. When was Schubert born? + +3. Name two American authors who were boys when Schubert was born. + +4. Name two composers who lived at the same time. + +5. What was the father of Franz Schubert? + +6. Who taught Schubert harmony? + +7. Give the name of a famous song by Schubert. + +8. What famous musician died in Vienna when Schubert was twelve years +old? + +9. Who was the noted singer who helped to make Schubert's songs famous? + +10. When did Schubert die? + + + + + THE STORY OF FRANZ PETER SCHUBERT + + Written by.................................... + + On (date)..................................... + + [Illustration: No. 21] + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + +In the list of composers in the instructions on how to use the book, the +"r with a caron" in the name Dvorak was replaced with a regular "r". + +On page 7, "WOLFANG" was replaced with "WOLFGANG" + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Child's Own Book of Great Musicians: +Schubert, by Thomas Tapper + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHILD'S OWN BOOK: SCHUBERT *** + +***** This file should be named 35070.txt or 35070.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/3/5/0/7/35070/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Ernest Schaal, and the +Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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